Every positive functional achieves its norm on the identity - converse?

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Let $X$ be a unital $C^*$ algebra. I can show that if $f$ is a positive linear functional, i.e. $f(xx^*)\geq0$, then $f$ is continuous and achieves its norm at the identity. Is the converse also true - is a continuous linear functional that achieves its norm at the identity positive?

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