You can always succeed if you choose the right path. This means following a true method in both your thoughts and your actions. Two things are common to all souls — God's soul, human souls, and every thinking creature. First, nothing can stop them from doing their proper work. Second, their happiness comes from wanting to do right and actually doing right. This is where their desire ends.
Thou mayest always speed, if thou wilt but make choice of the right way; if in the course both of thine opinions and actions, thou wilt observe a true method. These two things be common to the souls, as of God, so of men, and of every reasonable creature, first that in their own proper work they cannot be hindered by anything: and secondly, that their happiness doth consist in a disposition to, and in the practice of righteousness; and that in these their desire is terminated.