We consider almost sure convergence of the SDE $dX_t=α_t d t + β_t d W_t$ under the existence of a $C^2$-Lyapunov function $F:\mathbb R^d \to \mathbb R$. More explicitly, we show that on the event that the process stays local we have almost sure convergence in the Lyapunov function $(F(X_t))$ as well as $\nabla F(X_t)\to 0$, if $|β_t|=\mathcal O( t^{-β})$ for a $β>1/2$. If, additionally, one assumes that $F$ is a Lojasiewicz function, we get almost sure convergence of the process itself, given that $|β_t|=\mathcal O(t^{-β})$ for a $β>1$. The assumptions are shown to be optimal in the sense that there is a divergent counterexample where $|β_t|$ is of order $t^{-1}$.