The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
After a storm comes a calm.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
You never know what motivates you.
I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.