It takes Lady Macbeth to convince her wavering husband to go ahead with the murder. Here are the lines at the end of Act I where Macbeth commits to the act:
I am settled, and bend up/Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Macbeth is saying I am convinced ("settled") and will throw every part of my body ("each corporal agent") into this murder ("terrible feat").
Up until this moment, Macbeth has been back pedaling. While alone, waiting for Lady Macbeth, he offers himself many reasons not to murder Duncan. These include the idea that violence begets more violence, that it is doubly wrong to murder someone to whom you are offering hospitality, that Duncan has been a good and compassionate ruler, and that ambition, his only motivation for the act, can backfire and lead to trouble.
When Lady Macbeth enters, Macbeth tells her, "We will proceed no further with this business" and gives as his reason wanting to bask in the glow of becoming the Thane of Cawdor. Lady Macbeth tells him she would go so far as to dash her baby's brains out if she had said she would and that he has to go ahead with the murder as he promised. She also reassures him twice that they can't fail. At this point, he decides to go ahead and murder Duncan, clearly against his better judgment.
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