Influence vs. Inspire — What's the Difference?

A power affecting a person, thing, or course of events, especially one that operates without any direct or apparent effort

To affect, guide, or arouse by divine influence.

Power to sway or affect based on prestige, wealth, ability, or position

To fill with enlivening or exalting emotion

A person who exerts such power

To stimulate to action; motivate

A determining factor believed by some to affect individual tendencies and characteristics understood to be caused by the positions of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.

To cause (someone) to have a particular feeling; affect or touch

Factors believed to be caused by the changing positions of the stars and planets in relation to their positions at the time of one's birth.

To cause someone to have (a feeling or reaction); elicit or arouse

To have an influence on (something); change

To be the cause or source of; bring about

To change the behavior or thinking of (someone); sway

To draw in (air) by inhaling.

The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development of fluctuating things such as conduct, thoughts or decisions.

To breathe on.

An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.

To breathe life into.

A person or thing exerting such power or action.

To stimulate energies, ideals, or reverence

(astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the position of the stars and planets at the time of one's birth.

To inhale.

(obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.

(transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

(electricity) Electrostatic induction.

(transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.

(transitive) To have an effect on by using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to persuade or induce.

(intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.

(intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

A flowing in or upon; influx.

(transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

Hence, in general, the bringing about of an effect, physical or moral, by a gradual process; controlling power quietly exerted; agency, force, or tendency of any kind which affects, modifies, or sways; as, the influence which the sun exerts on animal and vegetable life; the influence of education on the mind; the influence, according to astrologers, of the stars over affairs.

To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.

Power or authority arising from elevated station, excelence of character or intellect, wealth, etc.; reputation; acknowledged ascendency; as, he is a man of influence in the community.

To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.

Induction.

To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; - opposed to expire.

To control or move by power, physical or moral; to affect by gentle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify, bias, or sway; to affect; to move; to persuade; to induce.

To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.

A power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc;

To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats.

Causing something without any direct or apparent effort

To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; - opposed to expire.

A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do;

To breathe; to blow gently.

The effect of one thing (or person) on another;

Heighten or intensify;

One having power to influence another;

Supply the inspiration for;

Have and exert influence or effect;

Serve as the inciting cause of;

Shape or influence; give direction to;

Urge on or encourage especially by shouts;

Induce into action by using one's charm;

Fill with revolutionary ideas

Draw in (air);