I highly recommend being friends with ambitious people. Their drive pushes you to work hard for yourself. They inspire you to do better, and their good traits rub off on you. That’s how you grow.
Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:
"Whoever knows himself becomes busy with rectifying himself instead of being busy with the faults of the people & whoever knows his Lord becomes busy with Him instead of being busy with the desires of himself."
[al-Fawa’īd | Pg.94]