人无远虑，必有近忧
rén wú yuǎn lǜ, bì yǒu jìn yōu
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Traditional: 人無遠慮，必有近憂
If you do not think ahead, trouble will soon be at your door. A saying of Confucius, quoted as advice to plan for the future instead of living only for today.
Người không biết lo xa thì ắt sẽ gặp chuyện phiền muộn ngay trước mắt. Lời của Khổng Tử, thường được dẫn ra để khuyên phải tính trước cho tương lai.
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Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 062 (2026-11-13). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · Vietnamese cognate: Idiomer entry “nhơn vô viễn lự, tất hữu cận ưu” (nhon-vo-vien-lu-tat-huu-can-uu). Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Equivalents & related
Common questions
What does “人无远虑，必有近忧” mean?
If you do not think ahead, trouble will soon be at your door. A saying of Confucius, quoted as advice to plan for the future instead of living only for today. Literally: one without far thought will have near worries
Is “人无远虑，必有近忧” formal or informal?
人无远虑，必有近忧 is generally formal.