Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.
The Way.
He provides the means and the path. It's up to you if you take it. No Catholic teaching even infers that good works alone will save you. You MUST take the way.
You don't hop into a vehicle and get conveyed. You have to walk the path and your feet can stray from that path, as so many have done. It is then up to you to regain the path. This is very clearly laid out in so many of His teachings.
If I may add or amend: When He notices that one of the lambs is missing, He goes out in search for you. But then you must still walk. So it seems
No works, good or bad will save you. You or anyone else will never be able to boast to God about something you did to get you into heaven. All get there the same way, through what Jesus did.
Romans 3:27
Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.
Romans 4:1,2
"What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God."
Romans 4:4,5
"Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."
If you work for salvation, you are telling Jesus that he owes you something for your good works. I tell him thank you for his gift by faith because he paid my debt for me.