Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Only the educated are free.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I believe you'll develop speed via strength work which includes hill running, either repeats, or running hilly courses as the Kenyans do on a steady basis.