Looking for a job today in Scotland can be a stressfull experience with rejection being a major part of the job hunting process. So, while you hunt for that dream career or job in Scotland why not take some inspiration from some of the greatest Scottish talents who ever lived?

• "People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
  Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist, Born Dunfermline
  
  
• "I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test."
  Kenny Dalglish, Football legend, Born Glasgow
  
  
• "There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing"
  Robert Burns, National Bard, Born Alloway
  
  
• "To me, seeing by telephone always seemed as reasonable a possibility as hearing by the telephone."
  John Logie Baird, Inventor, Born Helensburgh
  
  
• "I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one."
  Sean Connery Actor, Born Edinburgh
  
  
• "A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."
  Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor, Born Edinburgh
  
  
• "Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it."
  Samuel Smiles, Philosopher, Born Haddington.
  
  
• "He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit."
  Sir Walter Scott, Historical novelist, Born Edinburgh
  
  
• "We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature."
  Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer, Born Edinburgh
  
  
• "Try, Try and try again."
  Robert The Bruce, King of Scotland, Born Carrick
  
  
• "We are all failures - at least the best of us are."
  J M Barrie, Born Kirriemuir.
  
  
• "It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
  J K Rowling, Authoress, Edinburgh resident.
  
  
• "I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward."
  David Livingstone, Missionary, Born Blantyre
  
  
• "And what is the greatest number? Number one."
  David Hume, Philosopher, Born Edinburgh
  
  
• "One sometimes finds what one is not looking for."
  Alexander Fleming, Scientist, Born Ayrshire
  
  
• "There is always a time to move on."
  Jock Stein, Football Manager, Born South Lanarkshire
  
  
• "Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet."
  Billy Connolly, Comedian, Born Glasgow