What is a quote that shows iago's ambitiousness in the play, othello?

Question

please help me

like, career ambitiousness sort of thing

i can't find one

Answer 1

"In following him, I follow but myself,"  in Act 1, Scene 1.

Also, in Act 1, Scene 1, the whole quotation below, in which Iago explains how he's pretending to be a good aide to Othello only to serve his own ambition.

"I follow him to serve my turn upon him:

We cannot all be masters, nor all masters

Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark

Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,

That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,

Wears out his time, much like his master's ***,

For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:

Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are

Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,

Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,

And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,

Do well thrive by them and when they have lined

their coats

Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;

And such a one do I profess myself."

But actually, I don't think it was ambition that drove Iago so much.   It looks to me like his main motivation was bitter resentment about having been passed over for a promotion he thought he deserved.   Just wanting to get promoted doesn't necessarily mean that a person has more than  average ambition.   That's probably why you found it hard to find the quotes about his ambitiousness -- because there simply aren't all that many.