Agent Smith Clone 1: It is purpose that created us.
Agent Smith Clone 2: Purpose that connects us.
Agent Smith Clone 3: Purpose that pulls us.
Agent Smith Clone 4: That guides us.
Agent Smith Clone 5: That drives us.
Agent Smith Clone 6: It is purpose that defines us.
Agent Smith Clone 7: Purpose that binds us.
Agent Smith: We are here because of you, Mr Anderson. We're here to take from you what you tried to take from us.
[Attempts to copy himself into Neo]
Agent Smith: Purpose.
When you've lost NEO, everything dies. This is why things fail. Agent Smith -- the pressing urge, will always try to dissolve the One. The One can never defeat Agent Smith, only when he returns to the source -- one way or another -- will NEO finally destroy Smith and create a space for something new to begin.

Simply put, what made the journey begin is what ends it. Failure may be just the end, which is the beginning of something that's going to end, and so forth, until something entirely separate and new is created.
So, yeah, nothing fails, only that expectations are either met or not.
Plus, if to succeed means to actualize what was first visualized, then failure is change.
Yeah, it's like this post. This is one example of epic failure.
