Success Quote by Henry Hazlitt

Hazlitt’s line reads like a motivational slogan, but it’s really a compact defense of human agency in a world he thought was too eager to outsource responsibility to “systems.” The sentence turns on a quietly radical claim: means are not discovered first and then matched to goals; the goal, when genuinely desired, reorganizes perception. “Will point out” suggests not magic but attention - the way commitment makes certain paths suddenly visible, because you’re scanning for them, tolerating risk, and absorbing feedback instead of browsing options forever.

The subtext is anti-fatalism and, just as pointedly, anti-excuse. If you fail, Hazlitt implies, it’s often because the passion wasn’t strong enough to survive discomfort, boredom, or social friction. That’s bracing, even slightly moralistic: desire isn’t just a feeling, it’s a discipline that produces strategy. “Any object” universalizes the principle, smuggling in a democratic promise that success isn’t reserved for the already initiated; method can be learned if the appetite is real.

Context matters. Hazlitt wrote as a public intellectual in the long 20th century, arguing for individual choice and clear-eyed economics against fashionable collectivist certainties. In that ecosystem, “passion” isn’t romantic - it’s the engine of entrepreneurship, craftsmanship, reform. Still, the line flatters ambition by skipping structural limits: passion may reveal means, but it can’t always purchase them. The quote works because it’s half psychology, half ideology: a neat, optimistic syllogism that turns wanting into a kind of navigation system.