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Success is one of the most common things we talk about in inspirational quotes. This quote from Azim Premji is about the mental fortitude required for success. Success is achieved twice, once in the mind. The quote couldn’t be clearer – it is only asking you to imagine the success you want to create and strive towards it.

While understanding this quote – it is important to consider the notion that our mindset makes a huge difference in achieving our goals. If we don’t internally believe in our abilities or our goals, we are giving up too soon.

Success and mindset quotes

Success and mindset are closely intertwined with each other – we cannot achieve one without the other. A positive mindset will certainly not solve all our problems but will give us a chance to solve them. As much as I hate branding emotions and mindset, a solution-oriented approach will give us a better chance than worrying about our problems and being afraid of them.

A small collection of success and mindset quotes about your vision to succeed in life.

It is hard to fail, but worse to never have tried – Theodore Roosevelt

Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity – Walter Scott

Everything you want is on the other side of fear – Jack Canfield

Its not what you think that holds you back, its what you think you’re not – Henry Ford

Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right – Henry Ford

Everything begins from the mind, including change. So, if you want to alter your life, you have to start with your mindset – Alexi Weaver

It’s sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It’s about the mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.” – Adam Savage

Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion – Manu Bennett

Success is achieved twice meaning

Once you define your dream, you must break it down into achievable milestones. However, the meaning of this quote by Azim Premji is about the first vision of success in your mind.

The first thing that comes to mind is the vision for success. If you want to achieve something, you ought to define what that looks like. Success cannot be an arbitrary occurrence – a dream is only valid when you have specifics about it. Or else it is only wishful thinking. If you want to do something about a dream, the first step is to define it.

You can go ahead and do some amazing things, but the first signs are always through clarity your mind presents. Listen to the inner voice, define what that success means. It will help you fill in subsequent details. If you’re interested, I’d recommend having a look at the collection of Success quotes on Inspire99 which is a collation of all articles in the subcategory of success quotes.

How to create your success plan?

This is where your dreams get real. Abdul Kalam said – dreams are not the ones that come to you while sleeping. Dreams keep you awake, they pester you continuously. If you combine this with the quote from Azim Premji – connect these dreams to results. After all, if you just think about something, it doesn’t happen. For something to become a reality, you must work towards it. And that’s precisely the inspiration from this quote.

However, this quote goes a bit deeper in the sense that you ought to think about what success means. There’s a certain beauty in imagining success and deriving inspiration from it. You can’t be afraid of your goals so that you never start. The crux is to understand where your inspiration lies.

If you’re inspired by a goal – think about how it feels to achieve it. Nourish your goal with the vision of success and what comes along with it. Success usually has companions – this can be a change in outlook towards life or your opportunities. Surely you’ll be able to think of multiple outcomes that create this path for you. Related Azim Premji Quotes: You cannot get into business for the fashion of it

What is this dream/passion?

I will talk about the most important part of this quote for me. It is about visualizing the results you want to achieve. The moment you start talking about a dream, everyone starts asking you why.

The question is: Have you spent enough time, emotion asking what this dream really means to you

What does the dream look and feel like?

After having answered the WHY, let’s shift our focus to what this dream actually looks like?

• What do you see when you imagine yourself achieving your goals
• How do you walk, talk, react or even think?
• Are there any parallels you can draw into your life today?

Yes, there is one point about achieving the endpoint and then learning how to deal with it. The other perspective is about living the dream before having to wait all that time. There will be a lot of reasons why this will be qualified as impractical. But the point is to ensure that you create as many psychological allies to your dream as possible. And these things help in defining what these dreams can actually mean to you.

Your Subconscious

Ultimately, this quote is driving you towards the power of your subconscious. Most times we relate dreams to actions because we want to start working on them. But the quote makes us think about the journey of creating this dream itself. Perhaps it won’t give you all the answers, but it will set our minds in the right direction about dreams. After all, there is a certain beauty in dreaming itself isn’t it?

Success is achieved twice in the world: Once in the Mind and the second time in the real world

Azim Premji (source)