Believe in yourself

"Believe in yourself" thats what most parents tell their kids to do when probably they are low because of some failure(read..not being able to live upto their parents expectations coz kids hardly know what a faliure is at that age when they are forced into this unfair world of competitiveness) they have had or they could be having in the future. for most part of my life i hadnt believed in that but somehow lalety i had become a strong believer of the theory as being the only secret to success.
so as is the habit of mine i was preaching this to one of my friends, that she should believe in herself and everything would become great when she suddenly caught me offgaurd and she said something which actually made me think about it all over again.
she said"is just believing enough to succeed? dont we need luck more than the belief?"
and i just had to think over it, is it the "belief in oneself" which is most necessary to succeed or is it the "Luck" which is the almighty.
So the i wondered, LUCK, what does this little word of four letters mean? Is it what has been written for us to get in this span of few years we call Life?
It doesnt feel great to think on those lines coz it ends at us getting to a conclusion tha we are not the masters of our destiny and worse still we have absolutely no control over our future and what is going to happen would Happen no matter what we do!!honestly i would not want to believe that. so i am happier with the belief that i control my life and am sure i share these thoughts with quite a few others. thus for me and people like me its NOT Luck which we care about!
Well probably for the ones who believe in Luck its more of their own belief in God which makes them think that luck is on their side and they make things turn our way.
So it again comes down to what we believe in or rather who we believe in, and if the "who" is yourself then i think one would always suceed in whatever endeavours he start with a belief in himself!!