There is a relationship that can be leveraged to achieve more in better ways. A great add to the conversation. Thanks so much, Jennifer!
Appreciate your feedback and insights. You are always an inspiration, lifting us up in the various chats. As you mention, our aspirations lift us up, and we need to continue to do this. Great post Jon — I look at the idea of aspiring as striving to be better to be your best!
Thank you, Glenn. I agree with that approach. Our aspirations can drive much inspiration, to ourselves and others. I am grateful you added your voice to the conversation.
It is great to meet you! I really enjoyed reading your post, Jon! I never focused on how inspiration and aspiration are interconnected. But you are so insightful and beautifully pulled the two together. I agree that when both are utilized in our lives, we not only touch people but we also energize ourselves. Thanks for this! Really appreciate that, Terri. We do need both, keeps us fueled up to purposeful things. Jon — great post, I agree that inspiration is so uplifting but without aspiring there is no action that takes place.
Inspiration coupled with aspiration takes you from feeling good to receiving inspired thought and right into powerful, directed action! Thank you for this great reminder. Lovely post, Jon. The etymology of aspire and inspire are very close.
This is sort of a hackneyed comparison, I know, but leading does seem to depend on both aspire and inspire — very much as you say. Great points, Dan. I like pairing oxygen and purpose. You are correct that we need to need to depend on our purpose and breathe life into it everyday.
Grateful for your added insights and comments. Your perspective always adds a lot. Thank you! Excellent arrticle with deep insights…thank you.. Jon — I appreciate the ways you inspire me to think differently and it causes me to aspire to higher levels of thought and performance myself. Keep up the great work! Thanks, Randy. The feeling is mutual. Your posts always challenge my thinking and help me lead in better ways.
I have also seen how empty it can be to only be inspired. Sometimes I receive emails from readers that get inspired by my blog but are not aspired and so they continue to struggle in their lives. They get only temporary relief from being inspired but without aspiring nothing really changes. Thanks for adding to the conversation, Chrysta. Mixing aspirations and inspirations is so important; it is what will ignite a real, meaningful life and leadership practices.
Your work definitely provides the fuel to make this happen! Appreciate it! This is the entity under whose influence, one would do something. This source can be another person, a song, a painting, a story, a photograph, and many other numerous things. Aspire in a solo mode can be limiting. Inside, one feels good about what they are thinking, writing, and doing. However, without others involved, it loses some shine. Aspiration means that you are always short from reaching to the point you aspire, because once you achieve success in what you had aspired, then it will no longer be an aspiration.
Without inspiration; aspirations are never achieved and expectations are never met. Many women have done much better than men. Use them as inspiration and work towards your thoughts or dreams. We are always inspired by an external source. This source can be people, books, movies, songs, sayings, speeches, paintings, stories, etc. Nature can also inspire us.
For example, an artist might create a painting after being inspired by nature. Given below are some sentences that contain the verb inspire. You can observe the meaning and usage of it in the following sentences.
This groundbreaking discovery will inspire many generations of scientists. You might have noticed from the above examples that inspire is a transitive verb transitive verbs are the verbs that require an object. The football coach inspired Cory to keep working hard so he could play football in college. When you use aspire , you are focusing on the internal drive. When you use inspire , you are focusing on the external motivators.
Toggle navigation. Aspire vs. Inspire As with many words in the English language, aspire and inspire are often confused.
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