Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

Waitley’s statement links achievement to self-concept: people tend to live up (or down) to the expectations they hold about their own capacities. “Limitations” are framed less as fixed external barriers than as internal ceilings created by belief and attention. The second sentence—mind to body—expresses a common self-help and performance-psychology principle: sustained mental focus (on goals, fears, or narratives) shapes behavior through habits, choices, and physiological readiness. In this view, success is not merely a matter of talent or circumstance but of disciplined attention and constructive self-expectation, because what one repeatedly rehearses mentally becomes what one is most likely to enact.