Some terms are frequently used by commerce students but one must be clear with the term which is using, influence and inspire is one of them which is used by students frequently but they don't know the exact meaning of both.
When someone is trying to influence, they use to deal directly with that person. It is one to one situation eg. teacher is influencing students in a class for doing hard work or anything else.
But inspiration comes from someone observing from distance and he is speaking to the masses but it feels like talking to me eg. When Modi ji ask for swachata abhiyaan. His words inspired the most of the population in India to follow him. But it was not one to one.