I agree with dstuva that it will be very difficult to prove Macbeth cowardly. Sometimes he acts out of fear, such as when he says, "Our fears in Banquo/Stick deep" (3.1.48), but he does not shy away from confronting the source of his fear. He has Banquo killed.
You might have an easier time with Lady Macbeth. As you noted, Lady Macbeth does call upon the spirits
that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full
Of direst cruelty. (1.5.38-40)
In other words, she is not naturally cruel, and desires supernatural intervention to make her capable of convincing her husband to act on his ambition. Later she says that she would have killed Duncan "Had not he resembled/My father as he slept" (2.2.12-13). Perhaps she is only making excuses for herself. However, for obvious reasons, Macbeth should be the one to kill Duncan. After all, he is a soldier and much more capable of this task than a woman would be.
And yet, Lady Macbeth does "screw her courage to the sticking place" (1.1.60), and puts aside her scruples and persuades her husband to kill Duncan. She does her part in drugging the guards and laying the daggers ready for Macbeth to use. While she is waiting for Macbeth to kill Duncan, she gloats, "That which has made them drunk hath made me bold" ( 2.1/1). When Macbeth is unable to return to the scene of the crime with the bloody daggers, Lady Macbeth takes them for him and smears the blood on the guards. She returns to Macbeth and deals quite effectively with her shaken husband, ordering him to wash his hands, change his clothes, and go to bed.
These are not the actions of a cowardly woman. While she might not be naturally bold, her actions at least in the first part of the play show a fearless woman intent on making her husband king. Her breakdown later on in the play comes more as a result of the changes in her relationship with Macbeth than with fears.
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