Failure is "fracaso". So you can exit and feeling good to have make it (éxito) or completely get destroyed by failure and never exit from your failure, living a life of despair and never be able to find the exit.
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According to Wiktionary, they all come from Latin "exitus", which is a participle of "exire", which literally means "to go out/outside, to exit, to leave".
I think that's pretty similar to the origins of success:
Learned borrowing from Latin successus, from succēdō (“succeed”), from sub- (“next to”) + cēdō (“go, move”). Partly displaced native Old English spēd, whence Modern English speed.
Both seem to (!) relate to finishing a task, and might've gained the positive connotation later on.