Dic: inspire a particular emotion or action

• The car's performance quickly inspires confidence. 
• a teacher who inspired admiration and respect.

1. VERB | Someone or something that inspires a particular emotion or reaction in people makes them feel this emotion or reaction. 
2. To draw forth; elicit or arouse. 

• The book was inspired by a real person, namely Tamara de Treaux.     
• a political murder inspired by the same nationalist conflicts now wrecking the country. 
• an invention that inspired many imitations.

1. VERB : usu passive | If a book, work of art, or action is inspired by something, that thing is the source of the idea for it. 
2. To be the cause or source of; bring about:

.... Cobuild, The American Heritage