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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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"While there's life, there's hope," he once said.

From Salon ● Jun. 10, 2022

While there's life there's hope, it's me settled opinion.

From Deadham Hard by Lucas Malet

While there’s life there’s hope, and that our coming is the only thing that has saved Sid so far.

From The Camerons of Highboro by Beth Bradford Gilchrist

While there's life there's hope; and our hope this morning is that we are going to find the wreck of that canoe.

From Stranded in Arcady by Francis Lynde

"While there's life there's hope," came Frank's brave reply in his favorite axiom.

From The Boy Aviators in Africa by John Henry Goldfrap

"Yes, thank God, she's alive, and while there's life there's hope."

From The Woman Thou Gavest Me Being the Story of Mary O'Neill by Sir Hall Caine

Still, while there’s life there’s hope, and Percy did not give way to despair.

From Hendricks the Hunter The Border Farm, a Tale of Zululand by William Henry Giles Kingston

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 George Manville Fenn

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 William Carleton

We're not dead yet and while there's life there's hope.

From The Boy Allies at Verdun Or, Saving France from the Enemy by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes