"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself."
                               Henry Ward Beecher 

He is saying that be better than what people want you to be. But i don't think that is true because people tell you to be yourself but than this quote is saying to be higher than what everybody expects you to be. So I'm not going to follow this quote its not what other people want you to be its what you want yourself to be. SO JUST BE YOURSELF DON'T LET OTHER PEOPLE TELL YOU TO BE YOU.