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• While there's life, there's hope
  While there's life, there's hope

  Never give up. (Compare It's never over till it's over.)
• while there's life there's hope
  while there's life there's hope

  Also, where there's life there's hope. So long as someone or something ailing is alive, there is hope for recovery. For example, The company has survived previous recessions; while there's life there's hope. A statement made about dying individuals since ancient times, it was cited in numerous proverb collections from 1539 on. Today it is also applied to inanimate matters.

While there's life, there's hope

Cultural  

1. Never give up. (Compare It's never over till it's over.)

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while there's life there's hope Idioms  

1. Also, where there's life there's hope. So long as someone or something ailing is alive, there is hope for recovery. For example, The company has survived previous recessions; while there's life there's hope. A statement made about dying individuals since ancient times, it was cited in numerous proverb collections from 1539 on. Today it is also applied to inanimate matters.

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Example Sentences

That is, of course, when a man—his brother-in-law—is dead; but I don’t even know that poor Arthur Rosebury is dead, and as we say, while there’s life there’s hope.

From One Maid's Mischief by Fenn, George Manville

But, true it is, that, "while there's life there's hope"; and, as soon as their hearts began to beat again, their eyes roved round the horizon and their elastic minds recoiled against despair.

From Foul Play by Reade, Charles

You know that while there's life there's hope.

From Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by Carleton, William

We’re in a bad state, Wetherholm, but, as I before said, while there’s life there’s hope.

From Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor by Webb, Archibald

O, well," remarked Tom, "while there's life there's hope.

From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by Duffield, J. W.