We decide if a dinner is a good one by the last morsel; the same rule holds in every case. You must not change your mind till the very last, or all the trouble you have taken will be wasted. If you have assumed a part, you must carry it through; you will be ridiculed if you fall short in it. Tuka says, If a man begins cooking, without knowing the secrets of the art, his intelligence will suffer a slur.
Hinduism
Tukaram, Poem 3350
Source The Poems of Tukârâma, trad. J. Nelson Fraser et K. B. Marathe, 3 vol., 1909-1915, archive.org · Contents